Alexander Fortin

I'm a Software Engineer passionate about automation and all the things as Code

New blog post:

"Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives"

a.l3x.in/blog/use-the...

HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5001...
Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives • Alexander Fortina.l3x.in
2026-10-09View on Bluesky
Exciting news from Mistral:

mistral.ai/news/mistral...

Looking forward to try it out and compare to my daily driver (Zai glm-5.3-flash)
Introducing Mistral Large 4 | Mistralmistral.ai
2026-10-06View on Bluesky
"Metallica have survived this long not because they’re genre shapeshifters, but because their music is so rooted in the forever resonant concepts of injustice, mortality, human violence and mistrust."

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
Metallica review – metal titans on fine form in spectacular rarities-focused showwww.theguardian.com
2026-10-06View on Bluesky

Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives
In the last past 10 years or so I've gradually tried to distance myself from various form or "enshittification", I talk here about some of the alternatives I have chosen and why I think they serve me better than the most popular ones.
2026-10-0912 min
Serverless vanity Go import server
I cooked my bespoke solution to avoid coupling my Go code with GitHub
2026-09-281 min
Cheap and easy throwaway VPN server
I travel a lot and I don't like censored internet, in this article I'm discussing the various workarounds I put in place to circumvent restrictions.
2026-09-226 min